Poland

Chronology of Coverage

Jun. 30, 2015

Bialowieza National Park Journal; Poland is home to largest concentration of European bison thanks to Communist government program to revive nearly extinct species in 1950s, but current efforts to protect and grow herd is matter of controversy among country's farmers, environmentalists and business community. MORE

Jun. 23, 2015

Dozens of LOT Airlines flights are grounded for hours, leaving thousands of passengers stranded in Warsaw's Chopin Airport; Polish airline attributes groundings to computer attack by unidentified culprits, and, if confirmed, would mark first time flights have been canceled or delayed because of hacking. MORE

Jun. 11, 2015

Poland's speaker of Parliament and four government ministers resign amid release of secret recordings, on Facebook, that revive 2014 political corruption scandal. MORE

May. 31, 2015

Increasing number of Ukrainians fleeing conflict in country's east are finding that they are not welcome in Poland and other European nations; countries, wary of opening their borders to flood of job-hungry immigrants, are rejecting or delaying application for asylum from Ukrainian refugees. MORE

May. 23, 2015

Final round of Poland's presidential election between incumbent Pres Bronislaw Komorowski and his more conservative opponent Andrzej Duda will determine degree to which citizens desire change; first round ended with Komorowski finishing second to Duda, and with rock star Pawel Kukiz winning strong third place position running on platform critical of nation's entire political elite. MORE

May. 16, 2015

Poland will pay $260,000 in reparations to Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, meeting deadline set by European court; men are suspected terrorists who were interrogated in secret CIA prison in Poland. MORE

May. 12, 2015

Conservative Andrzej Duda of Poland will challenge Pres Bronislaw Komorowski in runoff election after winning 34.8 percent of vote in first round of balloting; results are setback for ruling center-right party and could indicate major political change in upcoming parliamentary elections. MORE

May. 8, 2015

Poland commemorates 70th anniversary of end of World War II in Gdansk, where the war started. MORE

Apr. 26, 2015

Tensions along Poland's 125-mile border with Russian enclave of Kaliningrad highlight European debate about how best to respond to Russia's aggression in Crimea and elsewhere; 2012 agreement made it far easier for citizens from both countries to cross border; Poles find themselves increasingly anxious about Russia's intentions, but also reluctant to endanger good relations that have been economic boon. MORE

Apr. 25, 2015

Polish Foreign Ministry says nationalistic Russian motorcycle club Night Wolves, which has close ties to Pres Vladimir V Putin, will not be allowed to ride through country on way to commemorate end of World War II in Berlin. MORE

Apr. 24, 2015

Federal Bureau of Investigation director James B Comey tells Polish ambassador that he regrets his remarks on Holocaust that Polish officials perceived as accusation of complicity. MORE

Apr. 21, 2015

Polish officials denounce FBI director James B Comey, saying remarks he made in speech at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum implied that Poland was complicit with Nazi regime in World War II; demand official apology from Obama administration. MORE

Apr. 16, 2015

Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oswiecim, Poland, has dedicated itself to preserving, memorializing and restoring the buildings of the death camp and gas chambers there; delicate and harrowing job entails conserving heartbreaking inventory of victims' personal items, such as shoes, hair brushes, suitcases, eyeglasses, Nazi documents and much more. MORE

Mar. 28, 2015

Military prosecutors in Poland charge two Russian air traffic controllers in 2010 plane crash that killed Pres Lech Kaczynski and 95 top-ranking officials, possibly adding to strained relations between countries; details of charges are not made public but controllers could face up to eight years in prison. MORE

Mar. 26, 2015

Polish former priest Wojciech Gil is sentenced to seven years in prison for sexually abusing eight children in Poland and the Dominican Republic. MORE

Mar. 21, 2015

Polish priest Rev Wojciech Gil offers to serve seven-year jail sentence for crimes including moslestation of young boys in Poland and Dominican Republic; under Polish law a defendant can offer to serve prison time for some crimes without admitting to guilt. MORE

Mar. 18, 2015

Death of young man identified only as Rafal W, due to privacy laws, spurs rioting against police in Poland; youth choked swallowing a drug packet during narcotics raid. MORE

Mar. 15, 2015

Polish paramilitary groups have seen surge in membership and training exercises as ongoing Crimean crisis provokes fear that Russian Pres Vladimir Putin will attack their nation next; Polish Defense Ministry has said it will provide military training to any civilian volunteers beginning in March; heightened atmosphere throughout region reflects fear of an increasingly aggressive and unpredictable Russia and historic legacy of Russian dominance in Eastern Europe. MORE

Feb. 24, 2015

Pawel Pawlikowski movie Ida is first Polish film ever to win Oscar for best foreign language film. MORE

Feb. 19, 2015

Poland will abide by European Court of Human Rights ruling ordering it to pay total of $262,000 in reparations to terrorism suspects Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri; court ruled that Poland violated suspects' rights by handing them over to secret CIA prison in 2002. MORE

Feb. 7, 2015

Polish lawmakers approve European convention against domestic violence, 254-175, after debate in which some lawmakers claim that convention threatens traditional family structure. MORE

Jan. 31, 2015

Chevron announces it is abandoning project in Poland to extract natural gas from shale rock and that its earnings in fourth quarter of 2014 fell to $3.5 billion, drop of almost 30 percent, which is attributed to lower prices; end of Polish shale project is ominous sign for fledgling European shale oil and gas industry. MORE

Jan. 29, 2015

Swiss National Bank's decision to remove cap on Swiss franc in advance of European Central Bank's stimulus has negatively affected many Polish and other Eastern European homeowners who took out mortgages in currency; move disrupted financial markets and has affected many large companies, but its impact on average European underscores how actions by central bankers can unleash unintended consequences. MORE

Jan. 24, 2015

Survivors of Auschwitz concentration camp will gather there, along with royalty and heads of state, to commemorate 70th anniversary of liberation of prisoners held at camp at end of World War II; gathering is expected to be anniversary with significant number of Auschwitz survivors in attendance, many of whom are in their 90s or older. MORE

Jan. 14, 2015

Russian Pres Vladimir V Putin will not be attending 70th anniversary of liberation of Auschwitz concentration camps in Poland, citing fact that he was not invited; ceremony organizers say no invitations were issued to any heads of state. MORE

Dec. 23, 2014

Poland halts inquiry of former Vatican ambassador Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, who has been accused of sexually abusing boys while serving in Dominican Republic, due to fact that Dominican investigators have not responded to requests for materials and evidence. MORE

Dec. 14, 2014

Tens of thousands of people gather in Warsaw to protest results of local elections. MORE

Dec. 3, 2014

Robert Biedron, with his election as mayor of Slusk, Poland, becomes country's second openly gay mayor; his victory is sea change in conservative Poland, where Roman Catholic Church has extensive political power. MORE

Oct. 25, 2014

Polish government appeals ruling by European Court of Human Rights that country violated the rights of two terrorism suspects by transferring them to interrogation site in northeast Poland run by Central Intelligence Agency; ruling was first involving a European country that had participated in CIA's 'extraordinary rendition' program. MORE

Oct. 23, 2014

Museum of the City of New York opens installation Letters to Afar, collection of home movies from pre-Holocaust Poland, arranged into montages, triptychs and split screens by Hungarian documentary filmmaker Peter Forgacs; films give glimpses of a Jewish culture in Poland that would, within a few years, no longer exist. MORE

Oct. 22, 2014

Museum of the History of Polish Jews, most ambitious cultural institution to rise in Poland since the fall of Communism, will unveil its core collection; museum traces history of Jews in country from their first appearance in the Middle Ages to the present day; unveiling comes amid atmosphere of heightened anti-Semitism in Europe. MORE

Oct. 6, 2014

More than 280 bodies, in year of sporadic digging, have been pulled from burial pits behind century-old prison in Bialystok, Poland; they are anonymous victims of the Nazis, the Soviets, or the Polish secret police; some worry Poland's far-right parties might want to make use of bodies as heroes to stir nationalist emotions. MORE

Oct. 5, 2014

Poland's economy remains robust despite latest strains in Eastern Europe; is only nation in Europe to see growth in every quarter since 2008 financial crisis. MORE

Sep. 20, 2014

Incoming Polish Prime Min Ewa Kopacz says she intends to take somewhat different, more feminine approach to the job; statement is response to question of whether Poland should send weapons to aid Ukrainian government. MORE

Sep. 19, 2014

Polish Pres Bronislaw Komorowski says he intends to call on the United Nations to change its rules to prevent Moscow from vetoing Security Council actions on the region, sign of Poland's unease over the international response to the Ukraine conflict and the country's growing confidence and rising profile in European and trans-Atlantic affairs. MORE

Sep. 1, 2014

News analysis; election of Polish Prime Min Donald Tusk as president of European Council is evidence of palpable shift in the way Western European leaders think about Poland and further evidence that old distinctions between Eastern and Western Europe are rapidly crumbling. MORE

Aug. 31, 2014

European Union leaders name Poland's Prime Min Donald Tusk to replace Herman Van Rompuy as the president of the European Council; represents first time bloc has nominated an Eastern European to the post. MORE

Aug. 26, 2014

Warsaw journal; most popular Polish sports tend to avoid physical contact, but football team Warsaw Eagles are cultivating a crowd that enjoys the rougher stuff; Polish American Football League is network of more than 70 teams in 36 cities across Poland drawing tens of thousands of fans. MORE

Jul. 25, 2014

European Court of Human Rights rules that Poland violated rights of terrorism suspects Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri by allowing their transfer to secret Central Intelligence Agency in Poland, where they were tortured. MORE

Jun. 26, 2014

Polish Parliament votes to retain embattled government of Prime Min Donald Tusk, despite an embarrassing scandal involving several top officials whose private, often profane conversations in upscale Warsaw restaurants had been bugged for more than a year. MORE

Jun. 24, 2014

Polish Prime Min Donald Tusk says that he will not dismiss any of the ministers whose bluntly politically and occasionally profane conversations were caught on tape, unless they are caught engaging in illegal behavior; Tusk says government will focus on uncovering who had made the recordings. MORE

Jun. 23, 2014

Polish Foreign Min Radoslaw Sikorski is heard in secretly recorded conversation describing his country's security relationship with United States as 'worth nothing' and 'even harmful,' along with more vulgar terms; deepening scandal over leaked conversations has threatened survival of Prime Min Donal Tusk's center-right government. MORE

Jun. 20, 2014

Polish Prime Min Donald Tusk warns he might be forced to call early elections if scandal over secretly taped conversations of senior government officials continues to escalate. MORE

Jun. 17, 2014

Tapes of high-level Polish officials discussing what seem to be unsavory deals are threatening careers of some of country's most prominent leaders and perhaps even survival of current government; transcripts of recordings were published by newspaper Wprost; Prime Min Donald Tusk criticizes recordings, describing them as attempt at coup d'etat. MORE

Jun. 11, 2014

Foreign ministers of Russia, Poland and Germany signal progress toward a cease-fire in Ukraine, even as up to 40 separatists are reported to have been killed in fierce battle in the east of the country. MORE

Jun. 4, 2014

Pres Obama flies to Poland to unveil $1 billion security plan intended to demonstrate the United States' commitment to stand with Central and Eastern Europe against Russian aggression; visit arrives at tense time in region, with nerves still rattled by crisis in neighboring Ukraine. MORE

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